Winter climate change: Ice encapsulation at mild subfreezing temperatures kills freeze-tolerant lichens

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 404-408

  Bjerke, Jarle W ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anaerobic metabolism; Anoxia; Arctic; Climate change; Ice encasement; Lichen; Stress; Sub Arctic; Winter climate

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BOREAL KINGDOM; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENCAPSULATION; EPIPHYTE; ETHANOL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FREEZE TOLERANCE; FREEZING; HERBIVORE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LICHEN; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATION; WINTER;

ALGAE; CLADONIA RANGIFERINA; CLADONIA STELLARIS; MELANOHALEA OLIVACEA; PARMELIOPSIS AMBIGUA;

EID: 79960251000     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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